Features of ImpactStory

Web-based application that makes it easy to track the impact of a wide range of research artifacts

Aggregates impact data from many sources, from Mendeley to Twitter and also includes Scopus and PubMed

Output is displayed in a single, permalinked report

ImpactStory is an open-source, web-based tool that helps researchers explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products--traditional ones like journal articles, but also alternative products like blog posts, datasets, and software.

Who is ImpactStory for?

Researchers

Research Groups

Funders

Repositories

Everyone

How should it be used?

ImpactStory data can be:

highlighted as indications of the minimum impact a research artifact has made on the community

explored more deeply to see who is citing, bookmarking, and otherwise using your work

ImpactStory is in early development. See limitations and take it all with a grain of salt.

for serious comparison

ImpactStory is currently better at collecting comprehensive metrics for some artifacts than others, in ways that are not clear in the report. Extreme care should be taken in comparisons. Numbers should be considered minimums.

Getting Started Guide

Creating Your Impact Profile

"No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these altmetrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning ecosystem. We call for more tools and research based on altmetrics."